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Nebraska senators continued their stalemate over school funiding and property taxes, and heard about a shortage of law enforcement officers.

Trade, meatpacking, climate change and fertilizer prices. These are all topics U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack thinks about regularly. In this interview with Nebraska Public Media News, we ask Sec. Vilsack about all of those and how his Department of Agriculture plans to approach them.

Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird and Police Chief Teresa Ewins reported the city's crime statistics for 2021 Thursday.

Gov. Pete Ricketts proposal for a canal to bring water from Colorado into Nebraska ran into questions, and the Legislature advanced a proposal to make requesting vaccine exemptions easier.

A Nebraska couple is working to save the San Clemente Island goats from extinction. They have a herd of more than 250 of them on their farm near Gretna, Nebraska. It's believed to be the largest herd of this breed of goats in the world.

There’s a high demand for nurses right now, and short-staffed hospitals are meeting patient needs with traveling nurses. But those nurses cost two to three times more than local staff. Nebraska Public Media News reports some of the ways hospitals recruit and keep their nurses from going to travel agencies.

A proposed cap on school property tax increases was blocked by a filibuster, while a legislative committee heard arguments for and against property tax breaks for casinos.

Nebraska Public Media's Jackie Ourada spoke to NPR member station KUNC's Alex Hager about what people in Colorado are saying on Nebraska's proposed canal.

Maria Kendall took a break from her job as a cafe manager in 2020 when she decided to do some house hunting on the real estate website Zillow. She looked for a new home in Marshalltown, a city of about 28,000 in Iowa between Des Moines and Cedar Rapids.It’s where she lived for more than 20 years and where her own children grew up. Maria was ready for a new house with her boyfriend and the three children with special needs she fosters. As Maria swiped through real estate, she spotted her mom’s house for sale.She immediately called her sister Socorro “Coco” Ontiveros in California, who waswith their mom, Natalia Esteban. Maria asked in Spanish when their mom decided to sell the house. After a pause, Coco answered. “What are you talking about?” Coco said.Natalia had not decided to sell the house. Yet, there it was, listed for sale on a real estate website.“And if she wouldn't have seen it on Zillow, who knows?” says Larry Colton, Maria’s boyfriend.It turned out someone else took control of Natalia’s house throug

An animal rights group is calling for staff terminations and a federal investigation in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Center near Hastings.

Vertical farms stack rows of plants on top of each other. These indoor farms control the lighting, water and temperature to create ideal conditions to grow fresh produce year-round close to customers. But the industry relies on artificial lighting and has a large carbon footprint.

Nebraska Medicine has been postponing elective surgeries since the start of January’s omicron surge. Corey Shaw is the chief operating officer at the hospital. Shaw said more staff availability and a decreasing number of COVID patients in the hospital is allowing them to free up doctors and nurses for more elective and specialty surgeries.

COVID relief money was supposed to be a lifeline for small towns recovering from the pandemic. Some found it a challenge to accept. Communities in Nebraska collectively turned down more than half a million dollars.

Nebraska legislative committees held hearings Thursday on building a new prison and listing party affiliations of legislative candidates on the ballot.

Six candidates running for state governor spoke on stage at the Lincoln Cornhusker Marriott Hotel to talk about their business priorities in the Nebraska Chamber Gubernatorial Candidates Forum.

A legislative committee heard a proposal to allow voters to recall governors and state senators, and debate continued on limiting school property tax increases.

Lincoln-Lancaster County Health department reports a dip in Covid-19 cases and local positivity rate, but the risk dial will remain in red this week.

Nebraska homeowners impacted by the coronavirus pandemic can now apply for assistance. Gov. Pete Ricketts announced Tuesday the Nebraska Homeowner Assistance Fund, using nearly 50 million dollars in funds provided by the federal government.

It has 77 students already signed up for its creative arts courses. 52 seniors and 25 juniors for the next school year have applied for the two-hour per day early career opportunity. LPS said it will choose 50 names at random for each grade.

Effort at requiring county attorneys to try diversion before sending truant students to juvenile court falls short; proposal to abolish certain teacher testing requirements gets a public hearing.